Hear the voices of summer at Choral Festivals!

If you are a music lover, and wish to mingle yourself with singers or do some singing yourself then visit to the choral festivals taking place this summer is a must. Whether experienced from within the chorus or from the audience outside, there is a universal appeal to the unique sound of music made by groups of people using their own voices. You can hear classic and modern choral works directed by the conductors, in settings ranging from a lavish California performance hall to a hockey rink in Massachusetts. There is a most venerable American choral event, the Berkshire Choral Festival taking place in Sheffield this July where Michael Taint of Dayton, Ohio, who will be in a choir. The festival operates as a singing camp for adults. The Sheffield hockey rink is the venue for choral festival in Massachusetts. It is anticipated that more than 700 music lovers will attend the festival. Sheffield hockey rink is a place where strains of harmony resounds, the winter sounds run to raucous cheering and body checks. Tickets: $25 to $40. When: Saturdays from July 14 to Aug. 11. The CBC Radio Orchestra will accompany about 200 singers in Verdi’s Requiem at the 1,100-seat Chan Center for the Performing Arts in the Berkshire offshoot in Vancouver. At the first California International Choral Festival in San Luis Obispo, California, the people’s choice awards will be given along with the decisions of a panel of judges using tuning devices to check that the singers are on key. The choirs from countries including Uganda, the Philippines and Finland will perform at the festival. Tickets: $15. When: June 29 to July 1. In late July, the Finger Lakes Choral Festival will take place in Rochester. More than 200 singers, mainly from upstate New York will perform one of the most popular choral works of the 20th century, Carmina Burana by Carl Orff. Tickets: $15. When: July 28 and 29. Seven participating choirs, including one from Trinidad and Tobago will be the feature of the Vermont International Choral Festival. There will be performances that will take place at churches and community centers. Composer and director Robert De Cormier will conduct the choirs for a program of spirituals and traditional folk songs. Tickets: Free to $15. When: June 14 to 17. In Ontario, Canada, the Niagara International Music Festival, organized by Don Harper, there will be performances in the communities of Niagara Falls, St. Catharines and Grimsby. Tickets: 10 Canadian dollars. When: July 4 to 8. Image1 Image2 Image3 Source: The New York Times